Judaism: sacred texts books

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The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research

The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History...

Author: Devorah Dimant ,  Devorah Dimant
ISBN: 9789004208063
Format: Hardback
$842.16

This book contains an exhaustive survey of past and present Qumran research, outlining its particular development...  Read More >>

Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa

Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking...

Author: David Ellenson ,  Daniel Gordis
ISBN: 9780804778053
Format: Hardback
$47.95

This book examines legal opinions from nineteenth- and twentieth-century Orthodox rabbis on what constitutes legitimate...  Read More >>

Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah

Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction...

Author: Moshe Simon-Shoshan (Rothberg School for Overseas Students, Hebrew University)
ISBN: 9786613624079
Format: Electronic book text
$263.87

Moshe Simon-Shoshan offers a groundbreaking study of Jewish law (halakhah) and rabbinic story-telling. Focusing...  Read More >>

Tales of the Righteous

Tales of the Righteous

Author: Simcha Raz
ISBN: 9789652295408
Format: Paperback
$67.25

THROUGHOUT THE GENERATIONS, Jews have been inspired and guided by the tales of gedolim, our great masters of piety...  Read More >>

Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim

Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim...

Author: Ruth Langer (Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Associate Director, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Boston College)
ISBN: 9780199783175
Format: Hardback
$147.95

Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories...  Read More >>

Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism

Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism...

Author: Matthias Henze
ISBN: 9780802803887
Format: Paperback
$106.06

A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism presents eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis...  Read More >>

Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660): Authors, Books, and the Transmission of Jewish Learning

Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660):...

Author: Stephen G. Burnett ,  Stephen G Burnett
ISBN: 9789004222489
Format: Hardback
$406.56

The Reformation transformed Christian Hebraism from the pursuit of a few into an academic discipline. This book...  Read More >>

Windows Onto Jewish Legal Culture: Fourteen Exploratory Essays

Windows Onto Jewish Legal Culture: Fourteen Exploratory...

Author: Hanina Ben-Menahem ,  Arye Edrei
ISBN: 9780415782517
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses...  Read More >>

Hechamaynu Leyamenu

Hechamaynu Leyamenu

Author: Uri Orbach ,  Shai Charka
ISBN: 9789655260908
Format: Hardback
$52.67

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Esau's Blessing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Special Needs

Esau's Blessing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Special...

Author: Ora Horn Prouser
ISBN: 9781934730355
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"A fresh look at Biblical characters through the lens of disability. Ora Horn Prousers shows how the symptoms of...  Read More >>

The Sages: From Yavne to the Bar Kokhba Revolt

The Sages: From Yavne to the Bar Kokhba Revolt

Author: Binyamin Lau
ISBN: 9781592642465
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This multi-volume series offers fresh perspectives on the individual characters of the sages (Hazal), the historical...  Read More >>

Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah: Second Edition

Jewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah:...

Author: George W. E. Nickelsburg
ISBN: 9780800699154
Format: Paperback
$128.00

In this fully revised and expanded edition, Nickelsburg introduces the reader to the broad range of Jewish literature...  Read More >>

Historical Perspectives: From the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the

Historical Perspectives: From the Hasmoneans to Bar...

Author: David Goodblatt (University of California, San Diego) ,  Avital Pinnick
ISBN: 9781280465499
Format: Electronic book text
$760.32

The papers published in this volume were presented at the Fourth Orion International Symposium, whose focus was...  Read More >>

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Seventh Series: More Essays on the History, Literature, and Theology of Judaism

Chapters in the Formative History of Judaism: Seventh...

Author: Jacob Neusner
ISBN: 9780761857204
Format: Paperback
$52.95

This collection of essays draws on work done in 2010–2011. The author takes up several topics in the systemic analysis...  Read More >>

Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples

Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and...

Author: Susan Handelman
ISBN: 9780295991290
Format: Paperback
$42.95

Considers how teacher/student relations sustain and renew the Jewish tradition  Read More >>

Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples

Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and...

Author: Susan Handelman
ISBN: 9780295991283
Format: Hardback
$98.95

Considers how teacher/student relations sustain and renew the Jewish tradition  Read More >>

Windows Onto Jewish Legal Culture: Fourteen Exploratory Essays

Windows Onto Jewish Legal Culture: Fourteen Exploratory...

Author: Hanina Ben-Menahem ,  Arye Edrei
ISBN: 9780415359788
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses...  Read More >>

The Rabbinic System: How the Aggadah and the Halakhah Complement Each Other

The Rabbinic System: How the Aggadah and the Halakhah...

Author: Jacob Neusner
ISBN: 9780761857396
Format: Paperback
$63.95

This book recapitulates chapters in The Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God (1999) and The...  Read More >>

Carmi Sheli: Studies on Aggadah and its Interpretation Presented to Professor Carmi Horowitz

Carmi Sheli: Studies on Aggadah and its Interpretation...

Author: Yosef Tabory ,  Neham Ilan
ISBN: 9781936235797
Format: Hardback
$270.00

This volume contains fifteen articles, many in Hebrew, by leading...  Read More >>

Challenges to Conventional Opinions on Qumran and Enoch Issues

Challenges to Conventional Opinions on Qumran and Enoch...

Author: Paul Heger
ISBN: 9789004217225
Format: Hardback
$604.56

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Revelation, Literature, and Community in Late Antiquity

Revelation, Literature, and Community in Late Antiquity...

Author: Philippa Townsend ,  Moulie Vidas
ISBN: 9783161506444
Format: Hardback
$317.49

Papers from a conference held 2007, Princeton University.  Read More >>

The Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli: Tractate Bava Metzia Part 2, Large

The Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli: Tractate Bava Metzia Part...

Author: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (New York New York) ,  Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (New York New York)
ISBN: 9789653014251
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The Steinsaltz Talmud is the most accessible edition available of the Talmud, the nearly 2,000 year old, central...  Read More >>

The Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli: Tractate Bava Metzia Part 1, Large

The Steinsaltz Talmud Bavli: Tractate Bava Metzia Part...

Author: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (New York New York) ,  Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (New York New York)
ISBN: 9789653014244
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The Steinsaltz Talmud is the most accessible edition available of the Talmud, the nearly 2,000 year old, central...  Read More >>

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